People

Jack Chambers (*1938)

Biography

Jack Chambers is a Canadian linguist, a professor at the University of Toronto who studies, among other things, Canadian English.

Contribution to Linguistics

An expert in Canadian English, Chambers is director of the dialect topography project at U of T, which has produced important findings in English usage across Canada and in regions of the United States that border Canada.

Central Knowledge

Chambers was the first to use the name "Canadian raising" for the typical Canadian form of pronunciation.